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Elastic Efficient Execution of Varied Containers
Sharma Podila reviews the state of containers usage in Netflix, discussing projects Titus and Mantis, AWS integration, and using Fenzo to run an elastic infrastructure for a varied mix of workloads.
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The Past, Present, and Future of JavaScript
Jay Phelps leads a discussion with Jafar Husain and Stefan Penner through the history of the TC39 specification process, revealing new features coming to a browser near us: ES2015 and beyond.
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Mesos: A State-of-the-art Container Orchestrator
Jie Yu discusses how containers are managed in Mesos, the future of container support in Mesos, and shows some of the new container networking and storage features.
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Building a Microservices Platform with Kubernetes
Matthew Mark Miller discusses Kubernetes’ primitives and microservices patterns on top of them, including rolling deployments, stateful services and adding behaviors via sidecars.
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Load Balancing is Impossible
Tyler McMullen discusses load balancing techniques and algorithms such as Randomized Least-conns, Join-Idle-Queue, and Load Interpretation.
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A Dark and Stormy Night: Operational Antipatterns
Kiran Bhattaram shares common operational antipatterns, useful tactics and stories learned in difficult situations.
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Scaling Dropbox
Preslav Le talks about how Dropbox’s infrastructure evolved over the years, how it looks today, as well the challenges and lessons learned on the way.
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Twitch Plays Pokémon: Twitch's Chat Architecture
John Rizzo introduces Twitch's chat's architecture, telling how their engineers investigated and worked through the issues in what turned out to be a make-or-break situation for the company.
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Intuition Engineering
Casey Rosenthal talks about a new discipline called Intuition Engineering and Vizceral, a tool they built at Neflix to process massive amounts of visual data in parallel.
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TensorFlow: A Flexible, Scalable & Portable System
Rajat Monga talks about why Google built TensorFlow, an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs, and what were some of the technical challenges in building it.
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Stranger Things: The Forces that Disrupt Netflix
Haley Tucker discusses how other systems may affect Netflix' services, strategies to protect their systems and make sure they won't fail even if things go wrong.
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Modern Web Security, Lazy But Mindful Like a Fox
Albert Yu presents a few viable, usable and effective defensive techniques that developers have often overlooked.